* Roland McGrath rol...@redhat.com wrote:
From: Frank Ch. Eigler f...@redhat.com
This is v2 of the prototype utrace-ftrace interface. This code is
based on Roland McGrath's utrace API, which provides programmatic
hooks to the in-tree tracehook layer. This new patch interfaces
many of
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:43:01 +0100 Ingo Molnar mi...@elte.hu wrote:
* Roland McGrath rol...@redhat.com wrote:
From: Frank Ch. Eigler f...@redhat.com
This is v2 of the prototype utrace-ftrace interface. This code is
based on Roland McGrath's utrace API, which provides programmatic
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:41:40 -0700 (PDT) Roland McGrath rol...@redhat.com
wrote:
This adds the utrace facility, a new modular interface in the kernel for
implementing user thread tracing and debugging. This fits on top of the
tracehook_* layer, so the new code is well-isolated.
The new
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 03:34:57PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Renzo Davoli re...@cs.unibo.it wrote:
Tracing does not mean only debug. Some tracing facilities can be
used for virtualization. For example User-Mode Linux is based on
ptrace.
I have a prototype of kernel module for
Hi -
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 02:34:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
[...]
It would not be good to merge a large kernel feature which kernel
developers and testers cannot test, and regression test.
It does not. Other kernel self-sufficient utrace clients are on their
way, and of course one
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
If testing utrace against its main application requires installation
of a complete enterprise distro from a distro [...]
This has *never* been a requirement.
You guys are getting off a tangent.
Let's go back to the post that started this
